be human being today III

be human being today

‘The powerful urge towards religion, or humanism, or the artistic appreciation of beauty, or the acquisition of knowledge, or a combination of these things, which you have been feeling ever since your youth, is actually something very remarkable, and it can form the basis for a wholly new life. For this urge is in fact caused by the touch of the rose power, of the Kingdom of God within you. All you need to do now is to turn this inner basis into an absolute virtue, into a liberating virtue.’

J. van Rijckenborgh, The Chinese Gnosis, chapter 27-II

The many lights of the candles during the Hindu Diwali festival symbolise the puri cation of hearts, houses and abodes of people and help to keep evil away